Chapter 274: Chapter 159: [Operation Market Garden], Shocking the Blue Star Imperial Leader (6.6k Double-Length)_2
But in this wave.
The faces of the Blue Star players echoed with ’slap slap’ sounds.
The plan was flawless.
The execution encountered major problems.
First, the Allies lacked detailed intelligence and didn’t know there were still Imperial resting troops here.
Ten thousand paratroopers.
Landed in the midst of an Imperial armored division of over ten thousand, and they weren’t even intentionally ambushing our forces.
They were just resting here.
Military achievements descended from the sky.
Literally descended from the sky; a burst of bullets would earn an iron cross medal, such good fortune couldn’t be found again throughout ’World War II’.
It showed once again that ’Earth’ was a huge amateur theater group.
However, there was still rational analysis.
The [Market Garden Operation] itself required multi-party collaboration, where everything was supposed to be flawless, or else the entire plan would collapse.
Just like airborne troops in other bridge areas, they didn’t encounter such mishaps.
Instead, they successfully captured those bridges, awaiting the massive Allied forces entering from land.
But now things were stuck with the 1st Airborne Division.
Due to issues like location deviation and incomplete intelligence, before landing, a thousand of the ten-thousand-person airborne division were already dead and the rest scattered everywhere.
They had no strength to contest the bridge, let alone face the encirclement by Imperial forces.
Now the problem arose.
The Allied forces that successfully captured the bridge could not receive reinforcements due to the British Commonwealth’s 1st Airborne Division failing to capture the bridge.
Without reinforcements, the Allied forces on the inside found themselves in a very awkward situation.
Fight... without support, capturing a bridge is plausible, but expanding the victory is impossible.
Don’t fight... then it’s awaiting death here, as the Imperial forces might come at any time, and reinforcements can’t get through due to this one issue.
Now, it all depended on the 1st Airborne Division’s situation, but the Blue Star players didn’t hold much hope.
And that indeed was the reality.
On the Sky Shark Live Platform, over 200 Allied streamers were progressing through the [Market Garden Operation].
However, half were killed in the air.
After landing, due to different flight directions, some crashed to the Imperial camp, resulting in another third dead.
Now only just over 50 streamers surviving.
It was unknown how many players triggered this plot, but just observing the current state in these 50 plus streamers’ rooms on the Sky Shark Live Platform,
there was absolutely no chance of a comeback.
Yu Feng’s side was relatively better, having gathered over 500 people after landing.
However, following battles at the bridge, attacking the Imperial bridge garrison forces, after half a day of fierce combat,
now only over 200 remained.
Though having taken this critical bridge, a problem then arose.
The ground reinforcement hadn’t kept up and still hadn’t arrived.
Imperial garrison forces were about to attack, 200 people against an Imperial armored division over ten thousand? This must be a joke?!
However... it wasn’t a joke.
The situation was just that brutal.
Yu Feng and his over 200 men were defending in a village near the bridge, waiting for reinforcements.
Completely unaware of the chaos at the Allied high command at this moment.
The US Army’s senior general Patton was almost pointing at Montgomery’s nose, calling him an idiot, and if not for Eisenhower mediating the dissatisfied generals,
the Anglo-American Allied forces would have already parted ways.
The most urgent thing right now was to remedy the situation.
British Commonwealth and United States of America kept sending planes to airdrop supplies, hoping to let the soldiers of the British Commonwealth’s 1st Division hold out a bit longer.
But unfortunately, these supplies eventually fell into the hands of the ground-resting Imperial forces.
Giving a free big wave of supplies to the enemy.
Yu Feng almost died of anger after seeing this through the live stream.
Did these guys use their brains?
Originally an Imperial unit at rest, and then delivering supplies, damn it, fully restoring their strength, and then coming over to attack their remnants.
Day 1....
Day 3....
Day 5....
Boom boom boom—!
In the village.
Yu Feng and his men were hiding in pits under cover, enduring relentless Imperial bombardment, at times having to charge out through the artillery fire to repel Imperial forces.
Luckily there was only one passage on the bridge here.
Yu Feng’s side constructed plenty of fortifications nearby, repelling several Imperial attacks.
Because only so many people could fit on the bridge.
So the bulk of the Imperial forces couldn’t push through, only engaging in a consumption battle with Yu Feng’s side.
Even so.
The numbers in Yu Feng’s group were also dwindling rapidly until only over 80 remained by the 7th day.
At the time, Allied reinforcements arrived, albeit only numbering a few hundred and also paratroopers; they were from other areas, ordered to support them.
These men couldn’t hold the defense.
The incoming US Army paratroopers saw the small remaining numbers and decisively withdrew them.
However, this movement also drew the attention of the Imperial forces across the river.
They dispatched a large force to attack.
Yu Feng led his men as they retreated while fighting, eventually boarding the vehicles sent by the United States of America for extraction, but amidst the bumpy ride....
A sharp pain hit his chest.
Yu Feng looked down in the dim carriage and vaguely saw a bullet hole in his chest, at some point now staining his uniform red.
The screen went black.
Directly ending this [Immersive Plot] mode.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The sound of something being smashed resounded.